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During the great resignation, staff came to me

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During the Great Resignation, staff came to me weekly asking for more money. I had to keep saying no.

At the peak of the Great Resignation, I was having the same conversation on repeat. A team member would come to me, sometimes weekly, to let me know...

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Why do we spend more time researching a 2K laptop than an 80K hire?

Imagine it is Sunday night. You have fourteen tabs open in your browser. You’re reading through multiple blogs and Reddit threads. You’ve watched...

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The sales leader early-stage founders think they need, and the one they actually need

One of the most common mistakes early-stage founders and CEOs make is hiring the "big company sales gun" too early. You know the profile.

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Product Update May 2026

Last month we said the bigger AI news was weeks away, not months. Here’s the first of it. We’ve shipped roleplay coaching in Hey Compono, our...

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Product Update April 2026

Follow our monthly product updates as we share the latest features to help you strategically design and develop teams and the work environment. It's...

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Alex Pusenjak

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Why Fluent Commerce made hours irrelevant

Alex Pusenjak stopped tracking hours at Fluent Commerce and started tracking impact. The result: 96% employee willingness to go above and beyond and...

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Culture is not an event (it's the sum of your micro decisions)

Sharon Gray doesn't think culture is academic. She thinks it's everything.

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The unconventional path (and why the best people leaders never started in HR)

Edan Haddock was arranging wedding bouquets when most HR professionals were writing their first performance review.

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AI won't replace HR

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AI won't replace HR (but it will expose who's been coasting)

One of Movember's founders pulled Edan Haddock aside and asked him, point blank, what on earth he was doing. "We're humanistic. Why are you bringing...

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